JUNE 22, 2013 Disaster Philippines By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Nearly 2,500 people — 2,360 to be exact — died in 2012 in natural disasters in the Philippines, says the nongovernmental Citizens Disaster Response Center (CDRC), putting it ahead of all other countries in the world including China, which was second with 771 deaths. But because “only” 12 million Filipinos were affected last year by typhoons, landslides, flooding and those other rainy-season disasters Filipino flesh is heir to, while some 43 million were affected in China, the Philippines was only second to that country as far as how many people were displaced, lost their belongings, had their homes damaged, and/or suffered various economic losses because of crops destroyed or jobs lost, among others. Being ahead of the pack in terms of how many people died in disasters is still bad news. But the good news is that the local governments of the most disaster-prone areas in the Philippines all claim that they’re more prepared for the rainy season this year, with some of them claiming possession of “high-tech” equipment, among them rubber boats whose motors actually work, and even scuba diving gear — the better, so it’s said, for rescue operations to succeed in terms of fewer casualties. - See more at: bulatlat/main/2013/06/22/disaster-philippines/#sthash.2EmUegCj.dpufbulatlat/main/2013/06/22/disaster-philippines/
Posted on: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 09:15:18 +0000
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